How abortion is destroying America:
48.5 million abortions is equivalent to the population of our 60 largest cities, from New York, NY, all the way to Anaheim, CA. (See map above) That's the toll abortion will reach at the current rate of 1,350,000 abortions a year early in 2007. It’s equal to or greater than the human loss we would have experienced from an all-out nuclear war, yet we are told to sit passively by and endure it by the pro-abortion ideologues of the left who dominate our culture, our media, our politics and our courts.
It adds up to a 30% loss in the younger generation under age 34 -- nearly 1 out of 3 of this generation has been aborted. The toll includes some 12.5 million African-American babies and 36 million others. That's nearly 6,000 times as many African-Americans as were lynched since 1900. It amounts to a holocaust against blacks and the young. It is the greatest loss ever inflicted on any generation in history. How can can anyone with a conscience stand silent in the face of it?
Abortion has major social and economic costs as well. The estimated loss in downstream tax revenue exceeds $14 trillion -- more than twice our current national debt. It is, in fact, the greatest tax increase of all time. But even if abortion ends, it will still take more than a generation to recover. That’s why we must begin now.
The annual bill in lost GDP from abortions that have already occurred exceeds $533 billion and will double to over $1 trillion within the next 10 years. Nothing else has ever had a more depressing effect on the U.S. and the world economy. Meanwhile, it is being compounded by a dramatic decline in births in France, Germany, Italy, England, Spain, Japan and even China. Only the Muslim world continues to grow at a rapid clip, and as a result Europe itself may become predominantly Muslim within 20 years.
If we want a better world for ourselves and our children, we must raise a great hue and cry right now. No kids, no future. It's as simple as that.
Abortion is also driving the greatest health care crisis in history, a crisis that is just ahead. As baby boom nurses and teachers retire, we face a looming shortage of 1 million nurses and 2 million teachers, not to mention critical shortages in such key professions as science, medicine, and higher education. Abortion and more efficient birth control together have wiped out at least half of our future human resources. With a growing number of elderly baby boomers in need of critical care, the only way to ease this crisis is to end abortion. Unless we do, the crisis will grow dramatically worse over the next 20 years.
Another consequence is a disastrous shift in the supply-demand equation that underlies our economy. Kids contribute to demand even before they are born, but they don’t compete in the work force for 20 years. That’s why 48.5 million abortions represent a huge loss in consumer demand. If those babies had been born, our fast-paced economy would still be going strong. They were the future consumers, producers, and taxpayers we need keep to keep our economy growing.
If we fail to end abortion, America’s role as a world economic leader will decline dramatically over the next 20 to 30 years. As early as 1994, we began predicting the collapse of the stock market that finally came in 2000. It was a collapse that was inevitable based on the demographics. Unless demographic trends reverse soon, the U.S. faces a long term economic decline comparable, if not worse, than the Great Depression.
Presidents come and go and have very little, if any, real effect on the economy. But demographics is destiny, and there is no way of changing fundamental trends except for people to begin making moral choices that put long term goals ahead of short term pleasures and profits. We ignore this fundamental truth at our own peril.
The abortion boom is also behind the coming crisis in Social Security and Medicare. The problem is that we used to have as many as 16 people in the workforce for every person on Social Security. Soon, there will be only two. To save these programs from bankruptcy, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that tax rates may have to rise as high as 82%. As one of the survivors of the abortion boom, guess who will pay the bill? Meanwhile, the downstream loss in future tax revenues that will result from the more than 48.5 million abortions that have already occurred amounts to an estimated $18 trillion, or more than twice our current national debt. We don't have a debt crisis. We have a death crisis.
What can you do to help? The answer is not more suppression of the controversy about abortion or more polarizing political debate. Few minds are changed in the middle of political campaigns. This is not a Democratic or a Republican issue. It is a profoundly moral and human issue. And the solution is more honest, open discussion, not continued censorship and suppression of the discussion by the media and the courts.
We need to build a pro-life majority by changing hearts and opening minds. And that will be done by talking more honestly and compassionately about the problem in our families and in our churches, by educating our young people as to what is really at stake for their futures. Talk to your pastors and youth ministers. Write letters to the editor. Make calls to call-in talk shows. Reach out compassionately to those whose lives have been adversely affected by abortion. And by all means, spread the word about this website.
Remember, if every pro-life person could change just one mind and heart today, we could have a pro-life majority tomorrow. Nothing else will end abortion.
Spread the word. Join your voice with ours. Share your thoughts with us by emailing us at:
info@movementforabetteramerica.org
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